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"I will do so at once, sir;" and within half-an-hour McKay was in his saddle, riding down to Balaclava. Valetta Joe was in his shop, distributing a batch of newly-baked bread to a number of itinerant vendors, each bound to retail the loaves in the various camps. McKay waited until the place was clear, then accosted the baker sharply. "What was the good of your sending that old numbskull to me?"
He set the tins beside us, then went to the back of the wagon and reached down again for a couple of large, newly-baked cakes, which he handed to us. "The Irish captain didn't give any orders," he said; "but we don't starve our prisoners to death." With that he scowled at us in turn, and left the wagon. "Toll me what he said, Val," whispered Denham in a tone of voice which sounded very strange.
"Now, take something, people!" cried Stolpe, from the head of the table, where he was carving a loin of roast pork. "Up with the bricks there!" He had the young couple on his right and the newly-baked journeyman on his left. On the table before him stood a new bedroom chamber with a white wooden cover to it; the guests glanced at it and smiled at one another.
For he saw that Tommy had under his arm a big loaf, and the steam of newly-baked bread was fragrant in his nostrils. Never smoke so gracious greeted those of incense-loving priest. Tommy tugged and tugged, but Clare stood stock-still. "Where did you get that beautiful loaf, Tommy?" he asked. "Off on a baker's cart," said Tommy. "Don't be skeered; he never saw me!
As the pigs cried, "Come and eat me," so does the cake appeal, but in more subtle manner, to the instincts and nostrils of all present. It has that pleasant scent with it peculiar to newly-baked plumcake.
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